The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-07-22

printed that you did not have an oppor.
tunity Of answering This opportunity
was not given you because you request
ed il, but because il was and is the rule
of this Office that no attack upon any
candidate will be printed just before
the delegate election without giving
him a chance TO defend himself. Our
course all through was honest, fair and
consistent, and no better proof Of this
can be offered than the fsot that we
were censured by your opponents be-
cause VIC gave you all the space you
wanted. But as you were always un-
friendly to the COLUMBIAN when it was
IN the hands Of those whom you could
not control politically, according to
The dictates OF your own sweet will. l
never expected anything else from you
but ingratitude for the privileges that
were accorded you in 1884. 1t has al
ways been, and still is your habit to
abuse those whom you cannot use.
You also find it just as easy to make
maliciously false accusations against
others as it is for you to deny truthful
charges against yourself. The ease
with which the allegations can be
proved or disproved never seems to
occur to you.
Your little romance about 40 alleged
violation of agreement with j. @.
Brown, is purely the work of your i'm
aglnation. 1t is worse. 10 is a false
hood. What will you say when tell
you that Mr.. Bro,on also pronounces
your assertion untrue, and states that
no such thing ever occurred between
us? In this you are therefore brand
ed as deliberate falsifer, and no
further answer to your tira1e would
have been necessary, because .fdlsus IN
u,,s, fdls,ts IN omnibus.
There are few other matters of
which you speak, to which have paid
no attention. Some of them haye been
repeatedly disproven, and the others
are false, and of little moment even if
true.
shall not attempt to catechise you
on your official and political record. 1t
would make very interesting reading,
but it would be too long, and as there
are many people who are thoroughly
familiar with your public life, some
portions of it might be stale.
If you will pardon me again, how
ever, l will venture a suggestion which
may be Of benefit to you, if needed.
Journalism is an honest and honorable
profession, and if you would devote the
same energy to the publishing Of a
clean newspaper that you give to crook
ed political scheming, and would use
the same endeavors to please your read
ers that you now put forth to abuse
and villify those WHO have thwarted
your political aspirations, you might
possibly make a success as a publisher.
But you are too old to learn new tricks,
and the Sentinel cannot reasonably
be expected to be anything but your
own personal organ, to be used solely
for the accomplishment of your own
selfish personal ends, go long as you
control it.
This is not journalism, and though
it may succeed for time, in the end it
is just as sure to fail most ignominious-
ly, as the sun is sure to set at night.
There are come people who will urge
you on with their plaudits, but the en-
comiums of such are not desirable.
What the intelligent democrats of Co.
lumbia county want is clean, honest,
consistent newspaper in which they
can confidently put their trust and
this is why the COLUMBIAN has been
for many years and is now the recog-
nized organ of the party, in spite of
your efforts by large gratuitous cir
culation to displace it. and in this per-
haps it is not necessary to use micro
scope in order to discover another mo-
tive for your repeated exhibitions of
jealousy and hatred. We have no
anger towards you, nothing but pity
and sympathy for the unfortunate
characteristics with which nature has
endowed you aud we shall have no
more space to devote to controversy
with you.
Yours truly,
GEO. K. ELwEIL.